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Nov. 18—PRINCETON — Three fire departments were dispatched early Wednesday morning after flames and smoke were reported at a garage and neighboring home off Athens Road. Members of the East ...
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A fire at the Star City amusement park in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines. [135] October 22 – New Zealand International Convention Centre fire. A fire in the roof of an under-construction building led to disruption in Auckland's central business district for three days. [136] The fire was left to burn itself out, four were injured. [137]
A total of 12,161 square kilometres (1.2 million hectares) had burned by the end of the 2017 fire season, the largest total area burned in a fire season in recorded history (1.3% of BC total area). [6] This record was broken the following year, with five of BC's worst 10 fire seasons occurring since 2010. [6]
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Fire name Hectares burned Fire Centre Date discovered Comments Link Bloedel fire 75,000 Sayward July 5 1938 0 deaths, the fire burned for 30 days on the north of Vancouver Island directly outside the village of Sayward. The effort to extinguish the fire was the largest in British Columbia's history up to that point.
An armed man who allegedly opened fire on Gibson County, Indiana, law enforcement Wednesday morning later died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
In response to the Online News Act, Meta (owner of Facebook) began blocking access to news sites for Canadian users at the beginning of August 2023. [245] [246] This also extended to local Canadian news stories about the wildfires, [247] a decision that was heavily criticized by Trudeau, local government officials, academics, researchers, and ...